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The Making Of Friends |
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Title: The Making Of Friends Author: Edgar A. Guest [More Titles by Guest] If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along, If each every minute looked after himself and good things all went to the strong, If nobody cared just a little for you, and nobody thought about me, And we stood all alone to the battle of life, what a dreary old world it would be!
If we lived as the animals live in the woods, with nothing held sacred or dear, And selfishness ruled us from birth to the end, and never a neighbor had we, And never we gave to another in need, what a dreary old world it would be!
Yet never we knew the delight and the charm of the smile which the other man gives, If kindness were never a part of ourselves, though we owned all the land we could see, And friendship meant nothing at all to us here, what a dreary old world it would be!
We want to live on not because of ourselves, but because of the people who care; It's giving and doing for somebody else--on that all life's splendor depends, And the joy of this world, when you've summed it all up, is found in the making of friends. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |